Pacific & Hawaiian · Starter
Ahi Poke
- Easy
- 20 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
Leads with toasted, nutty warmth throughout, a warm current of chile, finishing long and savory.
Ingredients
- 500g sashimi-grade ahi tuna, cut in confident 2cm cubes: the cube size is the texture
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (shoyu) + 1 tsp sesame oil
- ½ sweet Maui onion, slivered thin; 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds; ½ tsp red chili flakes or a spoon of chili crisp
- Limu (seaweed) or crumbled roasted nori; inamona (roasted crushed kukui nut) or a few crushed macadamias standing in
The words inside
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Method
- Chill everything: bowl, fish, hands' patience; poke is a cold-chain dish.
- Fold the tuna gently with shoyu and sesame oil first, the glaze coat.
- Onions, sesame, chili, limu in; fold, don't stir; taste: it should be ocean-first, seasoning second.
- Rest 10 min in the fridge and serve cold, alone as pupu or over hot rice as a poke bowl: the temperature contrast is the modern classic. 10 min
At the Table
- The Pour
- Pinot Noir (Willamette or Burgundy)
- Also Right
- Chilled Gamay (cru Beaujolais)
- From the Taps
- Saison
- Zero-Proof
- Hibiscus iced tea
The fatty fish that cross the red line: silk-textured, low-tannin reds meet their oils without a metallic clash.
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